Hung round with ragged-rimmed burning folds,

Embathing all with wild and woful hues—

Great hills of ruins, and collapsed masses

Of thunder-shaken columns, indistinct

And fused together in the tyrannous light.

So gazed I on the ruins of that thought

Which was the playmate of my youth—for which

I lived and breathed: the dew, the sun, the rain,

Unto the growth of body and of mind;

The blood, the breath, the feeling and the motion,